![]() The language itself is the clue to the reader, sparse at times, even, suggesting more than it shows or tells, and leaving the reader to imply or guess. Leckie keeps the pace careful and at times slower than I generally enjoy, but the plotting feels deliberate and suggestive of a noir at times. ![]() ![]() ![]() To call Ancillary Justice different from anything I’ve read before would be a disservice, but also speaks to my inability to find a suitable comparison. Once a single mind with a legion of bodies, she has been left with a single human body and a quest to wreck revenge on the perpetrator of her ship’s doom. Breq is the last unit of a massive starship, cut off by an artificial intelligence at war with itself. Told from the perspective of a former soldier of a wide-reaching space empire, Ancillary Justice brings a literary touch to the space opera genre without giving up what it means to be science fiction. To be sure, within a few pages I was impressed with Ann Leckie‘s inventive, or innovative, way of spinning the story. I remember reading a review late last year, and the reviewer promised that the effect was nothing short of mind-blowing.Īnd perhaps it is. Before I opened Ancillary Justice and started reading, I had heard rumors that it was something quite different from anything I had ever read. ![]()
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